With Jerome Powell keeping his cards close to the chest, investors hoping for a quick rate cut might need to sit tight. Inflation has now regained equal footing with labor market data in the Fed's policy calculus,

Fed Chair Jerome Powell asserts Trump can't fire him, citing legal protections. This standoff highlights the ongoing debate over central bank independence and presidential power in shaping economic policy.

Powell is the first chairman in 40 years not to hold a Ph.D. in economics. Avid cyclist who has been known to ride his bike to work at the Fed. 1984-1990 - Works at the investment bank Dillon, Read & Co.

The past quarter’s economic data showed that the inflation battle is not over; whether the Fed eases now depends on the data, a point Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve have repeated ad nauseam. Then came last week’s nonfarm payrolls data for April,

Every year the Federal Reserve conducts a stress test on about 30 U.S. banks to evaluate their ability to withstand economic crises, using hypothetical scenarios such as when the unemployment rate rises to 10 percent and housing prices drop 40 percent.

Trump hasn’t even been sworn into office yet and he’s already locking horns with Fed chair Jerome Powell on interest rates. They're both right, underscoring the Catch-22 facing the central bank and the U.

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Top Federal Reserve officials — including Chair Jerome Powell — are increasingly pointing to an obscure price gauge as a reason to maintain confidence in their outlook: “market-based” inflation.

President-elect Trump said in an interview that he won't try to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite his past criticism of Powell and the leadership of the central bank. The Fed doesn ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Friday it had withdrawn from a global body of central banks and regulators devoted to exploring ways to police climate risk in the financial system. In a statement,

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday told investors there will be a shift in Wall Street's focus, from the actions of the Federal Reserve to those of President Donald Trump. "We're now looking at the changing of the guard from Powell to Trump," he said. "It won't be easy, as one's a pretty predictable guy and the other's a wild card."

The main job of a central bank is to maintain the purchasing power of the currency, yet the U.S. dollar has depreciated about 97 percent since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. The Fed has done a profoundly bad job,